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"The world's leading luxury car maker, BMW, said on Friday it will invest 400 million euros (560 million dollars) by 2013 to produce an electric car as German manufacturers try to catch up with global rivals.
BMW has begun to extend its plant in the eastern city of Leipzig in a project launched by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to produce a series model auto it has dubbed Megacity."
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This report recommends site design practices that can be
applied through the land development process to promote
the use of more sustainable modes of passenger
transportation, such as walking, cycling and transit. Its
primary purpose is to assist policy-makers and professionals
involved in the preparation, review and approval
of non-residential development proposals to identify and
incorporate features that make sites more accessible to
travel modes other than the single-occupant vehicle
(SOV). The report also identifies a range of supporting
policies and actions that agencies can implement to create
an atmosphere conducive to promoting sustainable transportation through site design.
"Electric cars are the cleanest, most efficient, and most cost-effective form of transportation around. Seriously, electric cars are high-performance vehicles that will continue to meet new challenges in the future.
Here are some other reasons why we do need to have more electric cars on the road:
* No oil changes
* No spark plugs
* No other real repairs.
In addition, here are some more great reasons why we need more electric cars on the road.
1. Electric cars represent the most environmentally friendly car fuel, as they have absolutely no emissions.
The energy generated to power the electric car and the energy to move the car is 97 percent cleaner in terms of noxious pollutants.
2. Another advantage of electric motors is their ability to provide power at almost any engine speed. Whereas only 20 percent of the energy in a gas car converts to actual, useable energy, 75 percent or more of the energy from a battery reaches the wheels.
3. Less than 2 percent of U.S. electricity is generated from oil, so using electricity as a transportation fuel would greatly reduce dependence on imported petroleum.
4. Even assuming that the electricity to power the EV is not produced from rooftop solar or natural gas (let's assume it comes 100 percent from coal), it is still much cleaner than gasoline produced from petroleum!
5. The power plants are stationary sources that can be modified over time to become cleaner.
6. The electric car would cost no more than $1.25 to fill up regularly. In New York terms, that's less than a token on the subway.
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The Michelin Challenge Bibendum has just finished its tenth staging in Brazil, and thanks to championing what was an unfashionable cause when it started, has become the major annual sustainable mobility event as environmental concerns have grown. One of the highlights of the event this year was Michelin's release of a 145 page book entitled “Driving in the future – towards sustainable road mobility” and it's a great resource for understanding the challenges we face collectively, and the ways in which are likely to overcome them. Even better news is that you can download the entire book for free in PDF format and that it's available in English, French and Portuguese.
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The Centre for Sustainable Transportation is a membership-based, non-profit organization that facilitates best practices for the movement of people and goods over the long-term.
We bridge academic, business, and public interest to identify and help craft winning transportation solutions that benefit society and the environment while enhancing mobility.
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The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film that takes viewers on a provocative and eye-opening tour of the real costs of our consumer driven culture—from resource extraction to iPod incineration.
Annie Leonard, an activist who has spent the past 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats, narrates the Story of Stuff, delivering a rapid-fire, often humorous and always engaging story about “all our stuff—where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.”
Leonard examines the real costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal, and she isolates the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption mania began. The Story of Stuff examines how economic policies of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of “planned obsolescence” and “perceived obsolescence” —and how these notions are still driving much of the U.S. and global economies today. Leonard’s inspiration for the film began as a personal musing over the question, “Where does all the stuff we buy come from, and where does it go when we throw it out?” She traveled the world in pursuit of the answer to this seemingly innocent question, and what she found along the way were some very guilty participants and their unfortunate victims.
Written by Leonard, the film was produced by Free Range Studios, the makers of other highly popular web-based films such as “The Meatrix” and “Grocery Store Wars.” Funding for the project came from The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption and Tides Foundation.
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